Franklin College News

Great news this month about our faculty, students and alumni. A few of the highlight of accomplishments and awards in the Franklin College:

University Professor Lynn Billard of the department of statistics was selected to receive the 2013 Florence Nightingale David award by the Committee… Read Article

Here's a sampling of Franklin College faculty writing and quoted in the media this month:

“The secret bromance of Nixon and Brezhnev” – Posting by associate professor of history Stephen Mihm in Bloomberg News, picked up by the History News Network.

A second posting by… Read Article

Incredible news for department of English alumna Ashlee (Adams) Crews ( A.B., 2000) who was selected for one of the six 2013 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards and will receive $30,000:

In recognition of the special contributions women writers make to our culture and society, The… Read Article

One of the new Faculty Research Clusters recently launched by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts is the Digital Humanities Lab co-directed by Franklin faculty in the departments of English (Bill Kretzschmar) and history (Stephen Berry and Claudio Saunt). This initiative combines digital… Read Article

Big congratulations to the Hugh Hodgson School of Music and DMA student Lauren Hunt:

University of Georgia doctor of musical arts student Lauren Hunt took first prize Sept. 1 in the International Horn Competition of America's university division. Hunt, who began her studies this fall in… Read Article